History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

It was very lively in front of the temple. In the past, ordinary people were not allowed to enter here, and many ordinary people were deliberately allowed to enter.

And all of these people are holding lottery tickets in their hands, waiting for today's lottery.

Of course, some of them came here to join in the fun.

The entire open space outside the cellar is used, and a high platform is built under the cellar. There is a table on the high platform, and a square thing is placed on the table, which is being covered with a red cloth head.

There are two couplets hanging on both sides of the table, "Collect care for the lonely and poor, and gather resources from all over the world for welfare."

This is still asking the Supreme Emperor to carry a pen personally, and putting it out shows that the Supreme Emperor also supports welfare undertakings.

As soon as the auspicious time arrived, several firecrackers were lit and sounded.

After the firecrackers were set off, the sound of gongs and suonas sounded one after another, and the two pairs of lions danced again.

Now that the Qing Dynasty has become accustomed to seeking a good omen, it invites lion dancers to make the neighborhood lively.

This time, in order to be more down-to-earth, Minning directly followed the folk method.

After the lion dance was over, the officials of Shuntian Prefecture came out to speak, talking about the money raised by the lottery, where the future expenses will go, and how much the lottery won this time.

After a few words, the official retreated, the drum beat again, the gun behind the high platform was slowly opened, and Sheng Jia came out at this moment.

When the people saw it, they knelt down one after another.

Shengjia stopped in front of the high platform. After fourth master got off the imperial chariot, he raised his hand to make people stand up, and then slowly went up the high platform.

I didn't wear court clothes or auspicious clothes for today's event. I only wore Changfu, which was yellow and embroidered with five-clawed golden dragons.

After getting on the stage, fourth master stood on top and looked at the people below.

The high platform was still some distance away from the common people. Fourth Master found that the people below could hardly hear him speaking on the high platform.

Then he took a strange-looking object from the table beside him, and fourth master held it up in his hand, and said a word to it, the originally small voice was suddenly amplified.

The people below were shocked when they heard it suddenly.

Fourth master was not frightened, someone presented this thing to him in the morning to play with, it was just a thing that the craftsman researched to amplify the sound, so it didn't frighten him.

Since it is possible to research things that amplify distant objects, it is normal to research things that amplify sound.

Fourth master didn't say much, he only encouraged the people a few words, and then asked them to remove the red cloth on the table.

Afterwards, according to the previous rehearsal, fourth master pressed a button on the machine with dignity.

This thing can only be used after being powered on. Those craftsmen racked their brains to think of using electricity to make such a device that can suck up the ball.

After pressing it, he does not need to move, the ball inside will be sucked out automatically, when a ball is sucked out, an official will come to pick up the ball, and sing the numbers on the ball to the common people.

Fourth master retreated to the high platform, he couldn't be a pillar on it the whole time.

Wait for the winning number to come out before going up to announce it, and his task will be counted after the announcement.

Fourth master didn't want to come here at first, but it was Minning who asked him to come here.

However, you can only feel this passionate atmosphere when you arrive at the scene, which cannot be felt in Yuanmingyuan.

The winning numbers came out one by one, and you took out the lottery tickets to match the people who were on your mind. Some of them jumped up excitedly when they matched the first few numbers. If the following numbers match again, at least they can Receive thousands of rewards.

For some people whose salary is less than one hundred yuan a month, thousands of yuan is not a small fortune.

*** In addition, after the news that the emperor personally presided over the lottery numbers spread, it really aroused the enthusiasm of the people, and the sales of the second lottery lottery were much better than the first lottery.

Especially in the first period, the biggest prize was not taken away, but continued to accumulate in the second period, which attracted the enthusiasm of many people even more.

Many people even save two yuan to buy lottery tickets. Gradually, lottery tickets have integrated into the lives of the people in the capital. Although they don't buy many, winning a small prize occasionally can improve the family's food.

The sound of the lottery ticket has slowly passed away, and it has gradually integrated into the lives of ordinary people, and this accumulated wealth has been seen by many people.

Fortunately, with Minning in charge, no one dared to reach out.

However, Minning believes that this is only temporary, and no one will intervene in windfalls such as lottery tickets for the time being, but it does not mean that there will be future ones.

There will always be many smart people in this world.

In less than half a month, Minning has discovered that many people are eager to try it in other provinces. Therefore, the imperial court reacted and issued a policy not to allow private individuals to collect private funds in the name of lottery.

However, there are policies and there are countermeasures. You can’t sell lottery tickets, so you can change the way and put soap, face powder and other gadgets wholesale from the factory to increase the winning rate and encourage people to buy more. Even if you can't win the big prize, you can get a lot of consolation prizes. It's like selling products in disguise.

This kind of trickery has become popular everywhere.

In this case, the court is cracking down, but not enough.Anyone who is capable of running this kind of lottery booth can establish a good relationship with the local government in advance, and the local government will turn a blind eye to this kind of thing and let it go.After all, the welfare lottery money goes directly to the national treasury, and has nothing to do with their local finances.

Over time, the officials let him go.

And manufacturers and merchants have also learned this trick, in disguise to promote their unsalable products.

After a long time, the common people have also learned to be smart, knowing that the folk lottery is unreliable, and all the big prizes have been stolen by the merchants themselves. The official lottery is more reliable. At least the winners reported in the newspapers are real. Really ordinary people, this shows that they can still win if they continue to buy.

What's more, the lottery tickets sold by the government are used to support the orphans, the elderly and the disabled, and to build colleges. It is possible that these future generations can also enjoy education, so why throw the money to profiteers for nothing.

With the return of funds, the official lottery company thought it was a surprise.

After the lottery business was handed over, Minning didn't take care of it. As long as he took care of the accounts, he wasn't afraid of manipulation.

What's more, all the money is in the bank account, and if you want to use it, you have to apply. If the money is cash, Minning may be worried.But the bank was originally owned by Minning, so how could she be afraid that someone would hide it from her through the bank?

Time went from summer to autumn, and Fourth Master finally got a reply from the Supreme Emperor, and he had convinced those Manchu surnames.

Then fourth master can start to arrange people to go to the northeast to grow food for a generation.

For the soldiers of the several battalions in the capital, Fourth Master only planned to leave the inlaid yellow flags to protect the safety of the capital. As for the Zhengbai and Zhenghuang flags, they were all sent to the northeast to train troops and garrison fields.

The reason why the bordered yellow flag was left is because the bordered yellow flag has now been restructured, and all of them have been replaced by spearmen. These soldiers with guns in their hands are enough to protect the safety of the entire capital.

After all, even with twice the number of troops, they would not be able to withstand the power of firearms.

Now that the Xianghuang Banner is capable enough to protect the entire capital, the barracks stationed in Tongzhou can set off for the northeast.

Just as autumn is about to begin, one winter is enough to remove the moths, and the land can be stored for farming in the coming year. After three years, they will be stationed in another place, leaving the farmland for the people who have migrated there.

It is not an easy task to develop the entire Great Northeast. There are too many things involved.

At the very least, it is necessary to ensure that there is enough food to satisfy hundreds of thousands of mouths, allowing the Northeast to enter a large-scale development.

And these preliminary work can only be done by the army.

Fortunately, the fourth master has already announced that soldiers from the Eight Banners will come in rotation, go to two banners at a time, and then change to the other two banners after three years. He plans to use more than ten years to cycle and transform the entire Northeast, and take this opportunity to temper the army.

Zhengbai Qi and Zhenghuang Qi went to the Northeast, which attracted the attention of many people, but it had no effect on ordinary people, after all, these troops could not be seen on weekdays.

The matter of using Eight Banners soldiers to transform their hometown has already passed the entire cabinet, and it is only dispatched now.

Recruits will be recruited next year, and a batch of soldiers from the Northeast will be retired at that time, and those who can't bear the hardship and want to retire are the moisture that Fourth Master wants to squeeze out.

Time passed quickly, and after a few heavy snowfalls, it was time to go abroad for filial piety.

Fourth Master formally went to Changchun Garden to greet the Supreme Emperor.

To be honest, since this year, the Supreme Emperor has not appeared in front of the ministers very much, as if the Supreme Emperor has really stepped back.

Fourth master was grateful to the Supreme Emperor for his contribution, which was to make way for fourth master.

Fourth Master had tasted the taste of power since he came to the throne. He knew very well that once he had tasted it, it would be difficult to let go. However, the Supreme Emperor did not make any obstacles and directly delegated power to him. For this, he was sincerely grateful.

After arriving at Qingxi Bookstore, Fourth Master saluted the Supreme Emperor who was sitting in the rocking chair reading a book. In the warm study room, the Supreme Emperor sat on the rocking chair dangling around with a quilt on his lap, feeling like that hermit mountain man.

This rocking chair was sent by the fourth master. It was originally prepared by Minning for himself. After the fourth master saw it, he asked for the design. It used huanghuali from Hainan, and after it was made, it was polished and varnished. Became what it is today.

When it was first delivered, the Taishanghuang was still a bit disgusted. After a long time, the fourth master came back, only to find that the Taishanghuang couldn't put it down. He was either sitting in a rocking chair and basking in the sun in the yard, or listening to the people below. Without the dignity of being an emperor.

The fourth master came to greet him, the Supreme Emperor didn't even put down the book, he just said "um".

Fourth master talked about eliminating filial piety again.

The Supreme Emperor sat up with the book, "Just issue an imperial decree and announce it to the world."

Fourth master nodded, skipped this matter and talked about the draft.

Now that filial piety has been eliminated, the court will definitely talk about the draft again.

Fourth Master didn't think about looking for it for himself. After all, officials were banned from taking concubines, and he paid taxes himself.

It stands to reason that the draft should also be stopped, but the draft has become a national tradition, involving the interests of all parties, so it is not so easy to cancel it easily.

What's more, even if the fourth master doesn't choose himself, his sons have reached the age of marriage, and the elder brothers of the clan are all counting on the court to bestow marriages.

So this draft still has its meaning, and it doesn't mean that it can be canceled just by canceling it.

The fourth master had confided this trouble to Minning, but unfortunately she only came up with a bad idea, saying that the scale of the draft could be expanded and turned into a prosperous world where all the people participated.Simply put, it is a blind date event hosted by the court to promote the marriage between men and women.

Fourth master felt that this was a bit inappropriate. The atmosphere in the Qing Dynasty is somewhat open now, but it has not been opened to the point where men and women live together in the same room.After all, he had to take some considerations into account, so he naturally rejected this proposal.

The fourth master came to ask the Supreme Emperor this time, mainly to ask him if he had any plans for Hong Jing's marriage?

If not, he would choose a good wife for his son himself.

"Hong Jing is also seventeen..." He was still young in the last draft, so it was not his turn. This time, Hong Jing should decide everything, otherwise the ministers of the court and the central government should mutter.

And Hongyun can also look at one first. If he doesn't have a child, he won't have a child, but he must find someone to accompany him. When the time comes, he will adopt one of Hongshi's children, which can be regarded as old age.

Although the fourth master didn't finish his words, the Supreme Emperor quickly understood his hidden meaning, and the Supreme Emperor shook his head, "You can handle Hong Jing's marriage as you see fit, and I won't get involved in it."

At present, the development of the entire Qing Dynasty is somewhat unclear to the Supreme Emperor. He and the fourth brother agree that Hong Jing can be the future heir of the country, so the choice of the empress is very important.

It depends on where the fourth child will govern in the future?Whoever the fourth child wants to marry, Hong Kyung will naturally marry the daughter of that family.

Fourth Master understood that the Supreme Emperor had no intention of intervening, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

The Supreme Emperor thought of his grandson whom he hadn't seen for half a year, and asked fourth master again, "That kid Hongjing is still in the mine?"

Fourth master shook his head and said, "I've been transferred to the cement factory." The hardships that fourth master suffered when he was young, he didn't want his son to try again, so he paved his way.

However, Minning disagrees with this point, it is making obstacles for his son around the corner, torturing him like he is not his own.

Although it hurts to watch it occasionally, it can't convince Minning, but the Supreme Emperor agrees with this education method.

He used the eldest son as a whetstone to hone the prince, and he did not hesitate to grind the prince down, but in the end he chose the fourth son as his successor.

This means that the Supreme Emperor's attitude towards the heir is to be honed with all his might.

I have experienced as much tempering as I did when I was young, and when I enter the officialdom, I will not get stuck on a little thing.

The Supreme Emperor was very displeased with the fact that the old man paved the way for his son everywhere, so when he found that Hong Jing was not used to him at all, he raised his hands in support of her, and even treated her differently.

When Hong Kyung was first sent to supervise the construction of the train tracks, it was too ideal, of course, but later found that there was a shortage of iron ore everywhere, so he forcefully expropriated steel from other places.

As a result, other places were not so easy to mess with, so they reported it directly to Minning, and Minning directly transferred Hongkyung to the iron mine, allowing him to see with his own eyes the speed of steelmaking in the Qing Dynasty and the demand for steel in various places. .

After that, Hongkyung understood that the entire Qing Dynasty was under construction, and this time there was a shortage of steel, so it meant that the steel was only used for the train tracks, and other things such as tractors, firearms, etc. had to be reduced in quantity.

Both of these are currently in urgent need of the Qing Dynasty. The former affects the production of land and crops, and the latter affects the reform of the Qing army.

It is also because of this that Hong Kyung understands the importance of a mere amount of steel, and it is not that he can make a decision to appropriate other people's share of steel at will.

Seeing that Hong Kyung had this awareness, Min Ning did not intend to let him continue to supervise the construction of the train, but directly sent him to each link, so that he could have a deeper understanding of how many links are needed to build the train track before it can be built. Out of the final track used.

The Supreme Emperor said to the fourth master, "It's almost Chinese New Year, and it's time for Hong Jing to come back. He can't be allowed to celebrate the New Year outside, right? What's more, it's freezing and snowy now, and the train tracks have stopped working, right?"

Fourth Master nodded. Although the train track was shut down, the cement plant and the steel plant were not shut down, and they were still working day and night.

Especially with electric lights, it is even more work in three shifts day and night, and the efficiency has also been greatly improved.

Fourth Master didn't stay in Changchun Garden for long before returning to Yuanmingyuan.

After returning to the Old Summer Palace, the fourth master made an order to eliminate filial piety in all parts of the country.

This decree should be published in the newspapers soon, fourth master can even imagine that once the filial piety is eliminated in this country, there will be a lot of happy events everywhere.

After all, the marriages accumulated for a year were all held within this short month.

After finishing this matter, fourth master called someone to invite the cabinet ministers over.

The Qing Dynasty has undergone drastic changes in the past two years, and the original laws are no longer applicable. Laws on the sea, commercial laws, marriage laws, etc. all need to be redesigned.

What's more important is that Si Ye plans to use the methods of foreign lawyers. In the future, courts will be established in various places, so these laws must be improved, and all sentencing must be accurate so that all places can follow the law.

It's not like now, where the legal aspects are somewhat vague, causing officials everywhere to follow their own ideas.

Fourth master naturally wouldn't allow this kind of situation to happen.

Fourth Master called the cabinet ministers this time, mainly about the Salt Law. Of course, the cabinet alone cannot complete the laws so quickly. Fourth Master intends to gather civil jurists to recreate a set that can cover the Great Qing Dynasty. law in every way.

Clarify all the ambiguities of the law, so that people and officials can come according to the law.

The cabinet ministers came here very quickly, and things have changed a lot in the past few years. After sweeping away the dictatorship when he first took the throne, most things will be discussed with the cabinet. Of course, some things will be directly issued without going through the cabinet.

The cabinet ministers would not lose face to the emperor and acquiesced to the contents of these imperial edicts.

And in the past two years, the emperor has entrusted more and more affairs to the cabinet, which has caused the cabinet to be very busy, and the officials dispatched to help handle political affairs have become a huge team.

This time they received the order from the emperor to summon them again, and these cabinet ministers felt heavy in their hearts, and were very afraid that the emperor would suddenly order another mission.

When Ma Qi got out of the carriage, he happened to meet Zhang Tingyu, and asked him directly, "Master Zhang is always by the holy driver's side, did you get any news?"

Zhang Tingyu smiled and shook his head, "Master Ma Qi is often summoned by the Lord Long Live, could it be that he heard some news?"

Ma Qi stroked his beard, babbled a few words casually, and took a step forward, passed Zhang Tingyu and entered the Old Summer Palace.

After almost all the cabinet members arrived, fourth master put down his pen and asked someone to invite several cabinet ministers in.

After coming in, this also made people sit still, so he opened his mouth and asked them, "How are you preparing for the salt law?"

Lao Jiu and Li Wei plowed the private salt in Jiangnan, and the salt lords even caught a lot. Right now, the private salt in the Jiangnan market has been greatly reduced, which has caused the price of salt to continue to rise.

Fourth Master felt that this was the right time to announce the Salt Law, so that all salt merchants could be caught off guard.

Fourth master looked at Zhang Tingyu, and left the matter of the salt law to him.

Zhang Tingyu said, "If you go back to Lord Long Live, the salt law has been prepared, and it has been inspected by the cabinet. There is no major problem."

The fourth master nodded and said, "Okay, wait until tomorrow to publish it, and implement it first while modifying the inapplicable parts."

Zhang Tingyu frowned, can the law be changed while using it?However, the emperor had already issued an oral order, so he, as a courtier, naturally complied.

The fourth master took another look at the people present, and said: "The salt law must be enforced, you must supervise it carefully, and don't allow people to follow the law."

The six cabinet ministers got up and knelt down and said, "I obey the order."

"Okay, let's get up." After they got up, Fourth Master continued, "I'll let you come over this time, and there is one more thing I need to discuss with you."

"Nowadays, the factories in the Qing Dynasty are messy. As long as someone registers with the Yamen, they can open a factory. Although the factories are open everywhere, they are not good enough. This leads to these factories oppressing the workers. Many workers work for a year, but they don't even get their wages until the Chinese New Year. No, so I feel that another yamen should be established to specifically restrict these factories and make decisions for these workers."

Several cabinet ministers looked at each other and probably understood that the emperor was planning to attack factory owners everywhere.

In recent years, there has been a phenomenon throughout the Qing Dynasty, that is, no one who runs a factory does not make money.

However, the fact that the factory makes money does not mean that the workers in the factory also make money. For regular and well-known large factories, fortunately, some workers will not be in arrears with their wages.

What I'm afraid of is those small factories, which are opened in various counties. They were originally the tyrants in the county.

Some workers even died of exhaustion in the factory, and no one took care of them.

Of course, this kind of matter was concealed naturally, but it could not be concealed from the workers in the factories in Minning's hands. The news quickly reached Minning's ears, and Minning mentioned it to Fourth Master.

The factories she opened naturally treated the workers very well. At the beginning, they signed the contract instead of the contract of sale. At that time, everyone was watching the jokes of these factories and felt that it would not be able to keep people.

Then ten years later, this move seems extremely clever, because the imperial court abolished slavery at once.

This led to a large number of workers who had a bond of prostitution suddenly became free, and the factory owner could no longer control them. The workers who were oppressed without wages and could not eat three meals a day suddenly rebelled, not running away. To return home is to apply for employment in other factories.

On the contrary, Minning's factories continued as usual and took the opportunity to absorb many workers who had just been abolished from slavery, alleviating the labor shortage.

Those factories in the past could only pay a lot of money to retain some workers, but most of them ran away, so they could only recruit people from the market at a higher price.

But these are only decimals, and it is feasible in big cities. The factory owners in this small place are the local emperors. Even if they are abolished, where can those workers go now?He couldn't escape the city, but the factory owner sent someone to take him back, beat him to death and buried him by the side of the road, but who would know?

Therefore, in response to these chaos, Fourth Master felt that it was necessary to formulate sound laws to ensure the rights and interests of workers and restrict factories.

As soon as fourth master said this, the cabinet ministers became dumb one after another.

Don't blame them. Before the emperor issued laws and regulations, the cabinet ministers were not allowed to do business by themselves, but their family members were allowed to do business.

Together with the maritime trade, the factories all became hens that laid golden eggs. None of these ministers had three or five relatives, although there was no guarantee that these relatives did not open factories.

Now that the fourth master proposed to formulate laws to protect workers, these ministers were naturally a little embarrassed, after all, it hurt their rights and interests.

The fourth master clearly saw it in his eyes, so he first stated his request, which is to stipulate that the workers work a few hours a day, and each city announces the minimum wage of its city every year, whether it is a worker or a waiter in a shop, As long as they are employed, the monthly salary is not lower than the current minimum salary in the city.

Hearing that not only the factory was involved, but the entire business was involved, the ministers all became serious, not to mention these two requirements were not too much.They believed that although their family opened a factory, they did not exploit workers too much. After all, spreading the word would damage their reputation.

After thinking about it, the ministers enthusiastically put forward their opinions.

All of a sudden, the whole room was a bit messy, and the fourth master listened carefully, but after the last person finished speaking, the fourth master said: "Now I am clearing up all the laws, and I have to complete them one by one, so I urgently need the help of jurists. I have summoned jurists from all over the world to complete the law for me, what do you think about it?"

Ma Qi thought of the continuous overtime work during this period, and he didn't even have time to go into the concubine's room, so he cupped his hands and said to the fourth master: "Long live master is wise."

Other cabinet ministers echoed.

The fourth master smiled and said: "In this case, I will send out the imperial list to seek talents. In March next year, heroes from all over the world will be gathered to re-draft the laws of the Qing Dynasty. In the future, a law school can be established to train full-time law students, or Make up for the loopholes in the laws of the Qing Dynasty."

All the cabinet ministers suddenly understood that the Emperor of Feelings was planning to train his followers, and the jurists summoned not only used it once, but also planned to train their own talents for the court.

But they like this proposal, lest they spend their brains trying to complete the law and keep reading the laws of various dynasties.

The imperial list was posted the next day, and was subsequently reported by various newspapers.

There are a total of two things on the imperial list, one is the salt law, and the other is to recruit jurists from all over the world to go to the capital in the next March to supplement and formulate the laws of the Qing Dynasty.

I heard that it is possible to abolish Ling Chi and other inhumane criminal laws this time, which has aroused the interest of many people. Jurists who are relatively close to the capital even plan to spend this new year in the capital.

Nowadays, posting the imperial list requires postings from all over the country, and the significance of posting the imperial list is just for show. The real content of the imperial list has long been transmitted to all parts of the Qing Dynasty through newspapers.

All of a sudden, not only the Salt Law spread all over the country, but even the imperial court wanted to recruit talents who were proficient in law.

Let’s talk about the former first, Yanyin has also been changed into a salt ticket, allowing private sales of salt, and canceling geographical restrictions.

In other words, everyone can sell salt, and there are no geographical restrictions. For a while, many small traders planned to take advantage of the period before the Chinese New Year to buy salt with baskets on their backs.

As long as you hold the salt ticket, you can pay an additional tax on the way. Such salt will attract looting as soon as it arrives at a place where the price of official salt is relatively high.

Now is the time to prepare new year's goods, salt is indispensable for every family, and a lot of salted vegetables and bacon have to be marinated, which makes salt a scarce commodity, private salt is suppressed, and official salt remains high. The salt sellers who came to sell the salt suddenly made a lot of money.

Seeing that there are profits to be made, many merchants directly work part-time as salt merchants. Coupled with the support of the imperial court this time, the salt merchants dare not blatantly suppress them. The confinement has become that everyone can sell salt, and the salt price in the entire Jiangnan and even the entire Qing Dynasty has dropped again and again. By the New Year, the salt price has returned to the price of ten years ago.

The Salt Law made it affordable for the people to eat salt, and everyone applauded it at once.

The implementation of the Salt Law also moved the jurists hidden among the people. Some people originally did not want to serve the Emperor of Tartars, but now the Emperor of Tartars summoned the jurists from all over the world to re-draft the law. The law has them too?

Some people began to be tempted, so what if the Tartars became emperor?The law still depends on the Han people, so they can naturally be inclined to the Han people in the law. Even if they can't be inclined, at least they can make the law treat the Han people fairly.

And this is what attracts the most dedicated people.

In this way, it was passed on to ten, ten to a hundred, and many people began to call friends and exchange opinions with each other. Will they accept or not accept the imperial edict of the Tartar Emperor?

Fourth master didn't care about other people's troubles. When the country's filial piety was removed a few years ago, someone in the court really raised the matter of drafting.

It stands to reason that it should be too late this time. The time of the draft is not fixed, and it usually depends on the emperor's arrangement.

Fourth master didn't bother to argue with these idle officials in the hall, so he agreed directly.

But the draft has to be arranged after the New Year, at least after the Lantern Festival.

This time, all the young women in the capital who were waiting to be selected showed their sons and daughters.

Although the imperial court does not expressly stipulate that the heirs of officials are not allowed to take concubines, it has already begun to be implemented among officials.

Many officials' mansions in the capital have been cleared of many concubines, which made the hostesses in the backyard feel elated.

But in a blink of an eye, he couldn't be happy anymore. It's not only his husband and son who are not allowed to take concubines, otherwise his son's future will be delayed.These women were not happy when it was their son's turn.

However, not being able to take concubines does not mean that one cannot marry a daughter-in-law. The family who originally wanted to have fame and then get married planned to marry a wife early and leave offspring first.

This is no longer the same as in the past where you can take concubines and have children at will. Now you can only have one woman. Naturally, there is an heir insurance first.

Especially this time the emperor has hinted that each family can meet each other. He has no plan to pick a beautiful girl this year. Started to look like a child.

After the year is over, Hongkyung is also gone. After watching this year, he can settle down and get married in a few years.

Minning calculated that this age was suitable, so he agreed to Fourth Master's proposal.

Hong Kyung has been training outside for more than half a year, his face has turned dark and his skin has become rough, and his whole body has also become stronger. It can be seen that he is more composed.

Minning and the fourth master were very satisfied, but the fourth master felt sorry for his son. After Hong Jing returned to Beijing, he gave him a lot of things, and gave him a hot spring village in Xiaotangshan. maintainance.

Hong Jing was very clever, not only went by himself, but also invited the Supreme Emperor to go there together. Because he concealed his identity, others did not know that the Supreme Emperor had gone to Xiaotangshan.Naturally, no one disturbed him. The Emperor Taishang lived a leisurely life of picking vegetables and soaking in hot springs. He felt that the coldness in his bones had disappeared, and he dragged on until the 29th year before returning to Beijing.

After the New Year's banquets were over, Min Ning told Hong Kyung that he would marry him this year.

After Hong Kyung heard this, he became shy.

Minning didn't expect his son to have this side, so he teased him, "What kind of wife do you want?"

Hong Kyung looked a little shy, "My son will let my mother decide."

But Minning smiled and said, "This is to find a wife for you. Naturally, you must find someone who suits you. In the future, you princes can set an example and not accept concubines, so naturally you must find someone you like, who can accompany you until the end of your life." old."

Hong Kyung thought a little bit, he had also read Nalan Rongruo's poems, since he knew how difficult it is to get someone who is single-minded?

It was because of difficulty that he didn't put too much personal relationship with his children on it.

The shyness on Hong Kyung's face gradually faded away, he looked at Min Ning seriously and said, "Mother, my son only needs a woman who can take on heavy responsibilities." He has great ambitions and doesn't care about personal relationships , and as his wife, she must be strong.

Minning understood what he meant. All her life, she has always cared about the word "concubine", even if she is a noble concubine now, she still lives under the empress.

Marriage is probably the thing she regrets the most.

So she hopes that her son can get a single-minded person. If there is no accident, Hong Kyung will definitely sit in that position and become a loner.She hoped that the only family she had could bring him warmth.

"I'm going to hold a banquet in the Old Summer Palace on the Lantern Festival and invite women of all ages from various families. You should come and have a look."

Just as Hong Kyung was about to shake his head, Minning rushed ahead of him and said, "This time not only you, but also your second brother, Hong Shi, your younger uncles and uncle's sons. Don't even try to escape, this time If you don't like the one you like once, watch it next year, and I plan to hold it every year in the future, until you find something you like!"